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Just thinking should we all have a anti tetanus jab if we work on allotments
...But I thought it was flu when I woke up shaking and shivering and just wrapped up and stayed in bed thinking it will go away. Next day the leg when into overdrive, but by then I was delirious and when Sue came home from work and found me in a bit of a state she whipped me up the A & E where they told me what it was and gave me a prescription.
Quote from: ACE on November 06, 2014, 08:33:28...But I thought it was flu when I woke up shaking and shivering and just wrapped up and stayed in bed thinking it will go away. Next day the leg when into overdrive, but by then I was delirious and when Sue came home from work and found me in a bit of a state she whipped me up the A & E where they told me what it was and gave me a prescription.What I learned from my recent hospital stay: if you believe you aren't being given enough medical care (or have the slightest doubt that you can manage the illness at home), then tell the doctor you need the hospital. Granted, they may not have a bed sometimes, but you never know til you ask, and a bed may come available. In my case, after a bout with a virus that attacked my heart and a wild arrythmia, they'd drained fluid (a quart) from around my heart (pericardial centesis), pulled the drain the next day, changed my meds, decided not to treat my pneumonia and said I was to be discharged. They said my family doctor could treat the pneumonia if he wanted when I got home, even though I was hacking away constantly. I said I was exhausted and in no shape to go home and thought I needed cardiac monitoring at least one more night since they'd made all those changes. The doctors rethought their decision and they let me stay another night.